Wednesday, 13 October 2010

creating devising and developing drama

After researching on some of the practitioners we would have to compose an essay and devise a play. For my year two development i would have to be able to:


-self reflect- in an analytical style.
-write chronologicaly
-heighten language

I Chose to write about Gomes Pena.
Being an influential and pioneering practioner by working with minorities and pushing boundaries and breaking down cultural barriers. After reading about him, i liked his eccentric styles and found it compelling and fascinating to learn more about him. His work dealt with issues which i also feel passionate about so reading about how he used these issues to create drama and adress audiences was inspiring as i know he also took a lot of risks and had strong ideas. In watching one of his performances the audience indirectly experienced the freedom, cultural risks, and utopian possibilities that society had denied them.
His acting styles were often dubbed as bizzare and what not always understood by everyone i liked this as it showed me he was keen to exert his own ideas and be original with it and he did not think too much about the reactions of individual, he was a performance artist and his job was to push things to extremes. His shows normally carried out strong political messages and had underlying subtexts, his work was influencial to me because he incooperated current issues and affairs and the bigger picture in to live shows. He didnt seem to hesitate and think' this could be too much' he just went for what he felt strongly about and expected mixed reactions. His art was transgressive.